Waikiwi Gardens Rest Home

Waikiwi Gardens Rest Home We are a small rest home surrounded by beautiful gardens based in Invercargill. We pride ourselves on our community and family-based approach to care.

More than just a place to live...

At Waikiwi Gardens Rest Home we strive to provide a warm and friendly atmosphere where people feel they belong and are happy to call home. We have some of the best caregivers in the aged care business who take real pride in helping to make Waikiwi Gardens the best place in Invercargill. We offer a top class activities program with a huge variety of outtings, crafts and entertainment. With fresh home baking on a daily basis and a huge variety of different meals offered, one of the biggest complaints we hear is how good the food is! Our wonderful chef and cook ensure all dietary needs are met and take real pride in what they serve. With fantastic staff, beautiful meals, and a great social program, you'll find Waikiwi Gardens Rest Home to be a wonderful place to live. All the care and comforts of home...

At Waikiwi Gardens we enable residents to live as independently as they wish but always safe in the knowledge that we provide the very best in nursing care should they need it. Our facilities, and the people that help to run them, are there to provide support and stimulation and to help maximise each and every resident’s physical, intellectual emotional and social well-being.

28/12/2025

Residents gather in festive spirit, sharing laughter, music, and holiday treats as they celebrate Christmas together. 🎄🎁🎊
Thank you to our amazing staff working on that day for making it extra special for our residents. 🥳🥳🥳
Video credits to Linda 🥰

Lots of fun at the staff end of year lunch today. Loads of yummy food, followed by pass the parcel 📦 Sue was the lucky w...
18/12/2025

Lots of fun at the staff end of year lunch today. Loads of yummy food, followed by pass the parcel 📦 Sue was the lucky winner of the final layer prize. Next was a 🎅🎄 quiz which was hotly contested. Team Snowballs (Esther, Jack, Rachel and Linda) were the winners! 🏆 Merry Christmas everyone ☺️

The Waikiwi Kindy kids came to entertain us today. It was scooter day so they rocked down on scooters and hi-vis. ❤️ Som...
16/12/2025

The Waikiwi Kindy kids came to entertain us today. It was scooter day so they rocked down on scooters and hi-vis. ❤️ Some fantastic singing and dancing was performed and then Judy read them a Christmas story before they jetted off on their scooters as the rain started. 🎄⛄️🛴🎅

Big word challenge today... a Christmas 🎄 related word.... Gingerbread man.... We thought of 100 little words!! Well don...
14/12/2025

Big word challenge today... a Christmas 🎄 related word.... Gingerbread man....
We thought of 100 little words!! Well done everyone!!! This activity keeps the brain active and promotes good communication amongst the residents who played the game....😃

10/12/2025

The sleeps are getting less to the big day. This afternoon we played Christmas Scrabble! The word we started with was of course Christmas!! Nurse Jo was a huge help, thank you, funny about the NY- New Year! The challenge was to only make Christmas related words... we did pretty well, only a few blanks to make some of the words. The residents enjoyed the activity while a Christmas song mix was been played on YouTube to get us into the festive spirit...🎉🎉

10/12/2025

Here's the Waikiwi Preschool singing: We wish you a Merry Christmas!!🎄🎁🎅

10/12/2025

Here's another song from Waikiwi Preschool...Aotearoa Christmas....💐

10/12/2025

Yesterday the lovely children and staff at Wakiwi Preschool came to entertain us with some songs and bring some Christmas cheer.... they are kindly returning next week! What a treat!

02/12/2025

Had the wonderful children and teachers from Donovan Primary in this morning 🥰
They made the most Grinchy of us feel Christmasy.

28/11/2025

We had the lovely ladies from The Poetry Group entertaining us this sunny afternoon, ending with some practice for the big day 4 weeks away!!! (The countdown has officially begun 😁)

Our gardens are looking good! A great variety of vegies, herbs and fruit to come our way...nom nom 🍓🫛🥦🍅🥕🥔
27/11/2025

Our gardens are looking good! A great variety of vegies, herbs and fruit to come our way...nom nom 🍓🫛🥦🍅🥕🥔

25/11/2025

We had the amazing Riversong Choir entertain us with Christmas Carols. The residents loved it and were singing away delightfully 🧑🏻‍🎄🎄

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25 Ruru Street
Invercargill
9810

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+6432157200

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Waikiwi Gardens is more than just a place to live, it’s a rest home with heart, community and friendly faces. We pride ourselves on our community and family-based approach to care, treating all of our residents with the same respect you’d expect in a home environment. Our rest home is a beautiful and peaceful place, with the surrounding gardens often in bloom and providing a tranquil setting for our residents

The rest home caters for a variety of residents, including respite and palliative care. With a nurse on-call 24 hours a day and some of the best caregivers in the aged care industry, our residents have the best access to care and always safe and looked after. Our facilities, and the people that run them, provide support and stimulation to maximise each and every resident’s physical, intellectual emotional and social well-being. Our rest home and respite care is suitable for DHB-funded residents and respite care is also available for ACC clients.

We offer a busy activity programme with a huge variety of outings, crafts and entertainment. With fresh home baking on a daily basis and a huge variety of different meals offered, one of the biggest complaints we hear is how good the food is. Our wonderful cooks ensure all dietary needs are met and take pride in what they serve.

Waikiwi Gardens Rest Home also offers a day programme called Social Seniors. The programme is an opportunity for those outside of the rest home to come to us for the day, enjoy a hot meal and spend the day with fellow seniors in a range of varied and engaging activities. Transport to and from the rest home is provided.